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FooMonk:


--- Quote from: dcsgguy on May 02, 2007, 04:40:28 pm ---How can you tell when the paint is ready to be sanded?  I know I took a 300 fine block of sand paper to the good side and it appeared to bubble a bit so I stopped.

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I use an orbital sander. What I'm refering to as "not ready" is that the paint just isn't solid. The sander causes the paint to distort in shape, and generally makes it look worse. Silly putty comes to mind, but it's not that soft. Maybe I'm putting too much pressure on it.

dcsgguy:

hmm, that is what happened to me.  It didn't look right after sanding.  I didn't realize that you had to wait so long between coats.  This is crazy.  I guess the only good thing is that I am out of $$ to buy more stuff for the cab so I guess this slow paced stuff is perfect now.

spacies:

You can get a pretty good finish with a roller BUT it sounds like you are expecting too much.

You will never get it smooth like a car unless you spray. NEVER.

You could sand that thing into a pile of dust before you get rid of the 'stipple' a roller will leave.

And Black is the worst colour for this.

If you want a near perfect result, go buy or hire a compressor and a gun and you could paint it in 1 day from start to finish. And before some of you say BS, Dulon or acrylic car paint dries in minutes and actually requires you to put on the next coat while the last coat is still fresh.

I cut down a full size cabinet for my nephew.
I sanded the old brown sides, filled in some imperfections, sanded the filler, primed, sanded, primed, sanded, painted 3 finish coats left over from spaying my car and buffed it til PERFECT all in 1 morning. To apply 1 full coat on the whole cabinet was about 2 minutes max.



You can see the original laminate woodgrain effect through the paint which gives you an indication of how thin it goes on and how darn good it looks.

Now if you want to stick to the roller, you are going to have to accept that it takes time and you are going to have to live with slight stipple and brush marks in the corners.

Up to you mate.





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